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Originally Posted by Frownland
That rat cancer paper has been retracted after it didn't stand up to peer review. As for the cross pollination, it doesn't really affect neighbouring farms. There hasn't been a single case where a farmer has been sued due to cross pollination. Any cross pollination that would occur would be so miniscule that it would be difficult to notice. The case of Schmeiser, the famous intellectual property rights case with Monsanto, was not the product of cross pollinating. 95 percent of his crops had the anti-herbicide gene, which makes cross pollination out of the question as it can affect up to 5% of crops and that's being generous.
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There are swaths of misinformation about GMOs out there. I live in California so I get to see the worst of the ignorance.
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Fair enough, think of me as the uniformed layman whose too busy with his career to research GMO's, but I'm still concerned about their possible link to cancer.
I realize that many environmentalists take their ideology to an almost religious fervor, (Frakenfood ect) but are you stating in a round about way that there are absolutely no peer reviewed scientific tests that link GMO's to cancer?
I mean after all this is the primary argument against them, and if they have been debunked than their is no point in resisting them.
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Originally Posted by Sparky
you have the whole wheat gluten debacle
I read recently that sucralose causes lymphonia in rats at extremely high doses.
The way they test GMO's does not adequately reflect the effects of long term consumption. GMO's may not produce any negative effects in clinical trials but I don't know if that necessarily translates to long-term.
We're the same nation that previously thought cigarette smoking, high alcohol consumption and fast food were okay.
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That is why I would like to have GMO products labeled in the supermarket. I think this is a reasonable thing to ask, although I imagine the lobbying power to prevent this is immense with all the investment and jobs tied to the GMO industry.
On the other hand, I don't think you can halt a multi million dollar industry that creates thousands of jobs & economic prosperity on a what if...scenario. There has to be concrete scientific evidence to support the claim that GMO's are harmful to our well being. Cell phone studies have at least produced that.